Invited speakers

How to boost the appeal of a conference which had a relatively low number of submissions?

Here is the trick:

1) Maintain the acceptance ratio as low as possible,

2) Fill the program with sexy invited speaker talks.

Examples:

- Ton Kalker @ MMSP 2010, "Protected Video Distribution in the Networked Age"

- Gabor Tardos @ IH 2010, "Capacity of collusion secure fingerprinting - a tradeoff between rate and efficiency"

- Pim Tuyls @ IH 2010, "Hardware Intrinsic Security"

- Boris Skoric @ IH 2010, "Security with Noisy Data"

Miss cucumber, from the travel agency desk.